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Fans of The Power will love this addictive novel’ Stylist
A masterful speculative novelexploring the fine lines between faith, conspiracy, and mania in contemporary America.
While lying in bed next to her husband one night, Claire Devon hears a low hum that he cannot. And, it seems, no one else can either. This innocuous noise begins causing Claire headaches, nosebleeds, insomnia, gradually upsetting the balance of her life, though no obvious source or medical cause can be found. When she discovers that a student of hers can also hearthehum,thetwo strike up an unlikely and intimate friendship.Finding themselves increasingly isolated from their families and colleagues, they fall in witha disparate group of neighbours who also perceivethesound. What starts as a neighbourhood self-help group gradually transforms into something far more extreme and with far-reaching, devastating consequences.
The Listenersis an exhilarating and erotic novel exploring the seduction of the wild and unknowable, the human search for the transcendent, the rise of conspiracy culture in the West, and the desire for community and connection in our increasingly polarised times.
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Jordan Tannahill
JORDAN TANNAHILL is the author of The Listeners, which was shortlisted for the Giller Prize and adapted into a major BBC drama series, and the debut novel, Liminal, which received France’s Prix des Jeunes Libraires. He has twice received Canada’s Governor General’s Award for Drama. His plays and performance texts have been presented at venues including the Young Vic Theatre, Festival d’Avignon, Deutsches Theater in Berlin, Volkstheater in Vienna, and on the West End. His most recent play, Prince Faggot, ran Off-Broadway in New York for seven months.
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Deborah Pearson
